Life on the Periphery
Author: Jon Cunningham
Publisher:
Published: 2016-07-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781532311383
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From the Periphery
Author: Pia Justesen
Publisher:
Published: 2019-10
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781641601580
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the Periphery consists of nearly forty first-person narratives from activists and everyday people who describe what it's like to be treated differently by society because of their disabilities. Their stories are raw and painful but also surprisingly funny and deeply moving--describing anger, independence, bigotry, solidarity, and love, in the family, at school, and in the workplace. Inspired by the oral historians Studs Terkel and Svetlana Alexievich, From the Periphery will become a classic oral history collection that increases the understanding of the lived experiences of people with disabilities, their responses to oppression, and the strategies they use to fight for empowerment.
Consequential Strangers: The Power of People Who Don't Seem to Matter. . . But Really Do
Author: Melinda Blau
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2010-07-26
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 0393338452
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Living on the Periphery
Author: Toshihiro Nobuta
Publisher: Trans Pacific Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13:
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The Making of a Periphery
Author: Ulbe Bosma
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2019-07-30
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 0231547900
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIsland Southeast Asia was once a thriving region, and its products found eager consumers from China to Europe. Today, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia are primarily exporters of their surplus of cheap labor, with more than ten million emigrants from the region working all over the world. How did a prosperous region become a peripheral one? In The Making of a Periphery, Ulbe Bosma draws on new archival sources from the colonial period to the present to demonstrate how high demographic growth and a long history of bonded labor relegated Southeast Asia to the margins of the global economy. Bosma finds that the region’s contact with colonial trading powers during the early nineteenth century led to improved health care and longer life spans as the Spanish and Dutch colonial governments began to vaccinate their subjects against smallpox. The resulting abundance of workers ushered in extensive migration toward emerging labor-intensive plantation and mining belts. European powers exploited existing patron-client labor systems with the intermediation of indigenous elites and non-European agents to develop extractive industries and plantation agriculture. Bosma shows that these trends shaped the postcolonial era as these migration networks expanded far beyond the region. A wide-ranging comparative study of colonial commodity production and labor regimes, The Making of a Periphery is of major significance to international economic history, colonial and postcolonial history, and Southeast Asian history.
Ruling the Savage Periphery
Author: Benjamin D. Hopkins
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0674980700
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBenjamin Hopkins develops a new theory of colonial administration: frontier governmentality. This system placed indigenous peoples at the borders of imperial territory, where they could be both exploited and kept away. Today's "failed states" are a result. Condemned to the periphery of the global order, they function as colonial design intended.
On the Periphery of Europe, 1762–1825
Author: Andreas Schönle
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-11-16
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 1609092414
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThroughout the eighteenth century, the Russian elite assimilated the ideas, emotions, and practices of the aristocracy in Western countries to various degrees, while retaining a strong sense of their distinctive identity. In On the Periphery of Europe, 1762–1825, Andreas Schönle and Andrei Zorin examine the principal manifestations of Europeanization for Russian elites in their daily lives, through the import of material culture, the adoption of certain social practices, travel, reading patterns, and artistic consumption. The authors consider five major sites of Europeanization: court culture, religion, education, literature, and provincial life. The Europeanization of the Russian elite paradoxically strengthened its pride in its Russianness, precisely because it participated in networks of interaction and exchange with European elites and shared in their linguistic and cultural capital. In this way, Europeanization generated forms of sociability that helped the elite consolidate its corporate identity as distinct from court society and also from the people. The Europeanization of Russia was uniquely intense, complex, and pervasive, as it aimed not only to emulate forms of behavior, but to forge an elite that was intrinsically European, while remaining Russian. The second of a two-volume project (the first is a multi-authored collection of case studies), this insightful study will appeal to scholars and students of Russian and East European history and culture, as well as those interested in transnational processes.
Fresh Voices from the Periphery
Author: Susan M. Papp
Publisher: FriesenPress
Published: 2022-07-28
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 1039148352
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFresh Voices from the Periphery is evidence that history matters — not only the study of the past — but also by shedding light on how events of the past have impacted lives in the present. You are holding in your hands a collection of thought-provoking essays written by young people whose families have lived as minorities in various countries in east-central Europe for four generations. They became minorities not because their families migrated to different parts of Europe, but because the borders were changed overnight by the Treaty of Trianon after the end of the First World War. Much has been written about the outcomes of Trianon, but this book is very different. These essays are the result of a competition for students and young professionals who live in minority status in four different countries surrounding Hungary: Transylvania in Romania, Slovakia, Transcarpathia in Ukraine, and Vojvodina in Serbia. The writings of several Canadian students on this topic are included as well. Voices from the Periphery examines how the current generation of young people perceive the impact of the treaty that has had such a long-term effect on their lives. Their essays not only examine the painful legacy of the past, but also recommend pathways to a more positive future. Their voices must be heard.
Slavery on the Periphery
Author: Kristen Epps
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 0820350508
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSlavery on the Periphery focuses on nineteen counties on the Kansas-Missouri border, tracing slavery's rise and fall from the earliest years of American settlement through the Civil War along this critical geographical, political, and social fault line.
The Power of the Periphery
Author: Peder Anker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-05-28
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 1108477569
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines how Norway has positioned itself as an alternative, environmentally-sound nation in a world filled with tension and instability.
